Lynette Hall Hampton was born and raised in North Carolina and still lives with her cat, Jefferson. She calls North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina her second home because she owned a condo there for over twenty-five years. She says she would have never sold the place to anyone except her brother because she still gets to go. She vows that when her writing makes her rich and famous, she will buy another home on the breach, this time one with no stairs.